Steel Mamba
Nasty
The guy beat Mir, Herring, Couture, and Carwin, all basically as a novice. All of the MMA elistist picked him to lose all of those fights (well, maybe not the Herring fight, but I dont really remember), and ended up wrong. "Well, Mir isnt that good...Couture is old...Carwin gassed..." could never just give the guy credit. He loses to Cain, in a fight where he was pretty much expected to lose by anyone who had a clue, and everyone piled on.
If Lesnar was a guy straight out of collegiate wrestling, jumping into the deep end of the pool like he did, with that level of success, he would be a cult figure among the elitist. But, as we all know, he committed the ungodly, unforgivable crime of being a phoney pro wrestler, which for reasons unknown chafes the ass of sherdorks and elitists.
Nothing he achieved matters, only the loss to Cain, because that justifies the years of saying it would happen. Well, eventually they would have turned out right.
Brock and Fedor are the two most unfairly criticized fighters in the world.
We're all guilty of having some degree of bias. MMA fans are probably some of the biggest purists that there is and I see nothing wrong with that. Look at all of the people who were against James Toney, I guess he committed the sin of being a pro boxer? Whatever the case both of their backgrounds are beside the point because the nay sayers about Toney were right just as they were with Lesnar. The guys were green and over their head, put in a position that they hadn't yet earned in this sport. Everyone knew what Lesnar's weaknesses were, but you still had wrestling fans ready to consider this guy the next best thing.